Damascus: The Syrian government is holding a national referendum on a new draft constitution aimed at quelling the country’s uprising by ending the ruling Baath...
Srinagar: After remaining cut-off from rest of the world for two days due to heavy snowfall, Kashmir’s connectivity with outside world was restored on Wednesday...
Islamabad: A global survey shows that the world is divided into three groups on the issue of generating electricity through nuclear plants: strong pros (29%);...
Beijing: Â The chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has warned on Wednesday that the global economy faces the risk of a “lost...
Jakarta: Â Activists from various human rights NGOs urged Attorney General Basrief Arief to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that acquitted the alleged mastermind of...
Istanbul: Turkey has dismissed claims that it will agree to extending the release date of an already much-delayed United Nations’ Mavi Marmara report to give...
London: WIKILEAKS says its massive archive of unredacted US State Department cables had been exposed in a security breach which it blames on its one-time...
Tripoli: National Transitional Council (NTC) head Mustafa Abdul Jalil has said that Col Muammar Gaddafi still poses a danger for Libya and the world. The...
Tripoli: About 30 foreign journalists are still trapped in the Rixos Hotel in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after a four-day siege by Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists....